Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 14, 2009
July 14th, 2009
Today’s Atrocious Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
One of the odder atrocities performed by the Ku Klux Klan occurred in March, 1940 when 36-year-old black Atlanta barber Ike Gaston was charged with “cutting the hair of an inferior race with the same scissors used to cut the hair of white men.” He was stretched between two trees and whipped with a metal-studded strap and later died of shock and exposure from the injuries.
Culled from: An Underground Education
You’re right, that is atrocious.
I love that book, though.
It’s my firm belief that if such people really and truly believed they were superior to others, they wouldn’t feel the need to act as they do: all the horror and ugliness they perpetrate is rooted in their own insecurity and inferiority.
And I always wondered, kind of off the main topic but too far off it: why did people who believed that blacks were so inferior to them entrust black maids/nannies/etc to raise their children? What kind of person lets somebody he or she thinks to be somehow subhman do much of the raising of his/her children? Seems to me, somebody you considered “subhuman” or in any way inferior would be the very last person you would want bringing up your kids.
Oh well, who really expects logic from trash like that?
@Aimee
I’ve always thought there has to be some deep-seated insecurity for people to do such horrible stuff. Mostly, I’m appalled.
Exactly. A secure person, no matter what they were secure about, wouldn’t concern himself with what the “inferior” people were up to; they’d be beneath his notice, and he certainly wouldn’t feel threatened by them, if he felt himself to be so much better off.